Lab Takes Important Step
In Growing Human Tissue

By

Robert Langreth Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Nov. 6, 1998 12:20 a.m. ET

In a major scientific advance, researchers have grown in the test tube a type of cell that can generate other human cells, a development that will accelerate efforts to grow human tissue for transplants.

Two groups of scientists, one at the University of Wisconsin and one at Johns Hopkins University, said they have isolated and grown so-called embryonic stem cells, the primitive cells present in embryos and fetuses that are used to...